A joint team from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and Office for Cultural Relics Administration ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

May 13, 2013 4.3 / 5 (6) 0

(Phys.org) —Ever notice you get cold faster when you're wet? That's why whales are so much bigger than elephants, according to SFI External Professor Aaron Clauset in a recent paper published in the journal PLoS One that e ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 19, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

Genes that have roles in the same biological pathways change their rate of evolution in parallel, a finding that could be used to discover their functions, said a researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Feb 08, 2013 not rated yet 9 |

(Phys.org)—A research team from Germany has found a new way to study animal diversity in the wild – capture carrion flies and analyze the DNA found in their digestive tracks. The team discovered the new ...

Biology - Ecology

Jan 09, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1 |

When genes were first discovered, the canonical view was that each gene encodes a unique protein. However, biologists later found that segments of genes can be combined in different ways, giving rise to many ...

Biology - Evolution

Dec 21, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Popularly dubbed "the book of life," the human genome is extraordinarily difficult to read. But without full knowledge of its grammar and syntax, the genome's 2.9 billion base-pairs of adenine and thymine, ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jul 01, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

When early humans became carnivores, their higher-quality diet allowed mothers to wean babies earlier and have more children, with potentially profound effects on population dynamics and the course of human evolution, according ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Apr 18, 2012 4.2 / 5 (6) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have developed a new method to detect proteins associated with longevity, which helps further our understanding into why some animals live longer ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 29, 2012 4.3 / 5 (4) 0

Scientists from the Monell Center report that seven of 12 related mammalian species have lost the sense of sweet taste. As each of the sweet-blind species eats only meat, the findings demonstrate that a liking ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 12, 2012 4.4 / 5 (5) 0 |

As microbes grow increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics, scientists are looking in new directions for drug development. A new paper, published Oct. 19 in the online journal PLoS ONE, reports the synthesis and testin ...

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Oct 20, 2011 not rated yet 0

Tropical lizards may be slow. But they aren't dumb. They can do problem-solving tasks just as well as birds and mammals, a new study shows.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jul 13, 2011 5 / 5 (5) 1 |

For the first time, scientists have used large-scale DNA sequencing data to investigate a long-standing evolutionary assumption: DNA mutation rates are influenced by a set of species-specific life-history ...

Biology - Evolution

Jun 13, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 1 |

Scientists from the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute (BDRI) on the island of Sardinia off the coast of Italy have published the most complete repertoire ever of sounds made by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 28, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0

Fighting, paternity tests and infidelity. No, not a daytime talk show, but the results of new research examining why the fur will fly if a four-striped grass mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio) wanders into his neighbour's territory. Resear ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Jun 22, 2010 4.3 / 5 (4) 0

Why do domestic dogs vary so much in size, shape, coat texture, color and patterning? Study of the dog genome has reached a point where the molecular mechanisms governing such variation across mammalian species are becoming ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Mar 02, 2010 5 / 5 (1) 0